MAD Climate – Making a Difference

[BULAWAYO] New varieties of drought-tolerant maize could deliver a US$1.5 billion gain in food and income in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as helping smallholders cope with the effects of climate change, according to a study carried out in 13 countries in the region.

(Reuters) - Pledges by rich countries to provide developing nations with "fast start" funds to fight climate change are nearing a $30 billion (£19.5 billion) goal for 2010-12 but some is not "new and additional" as promised.

SCOTLAND'S Climate Change Minister has visited the Sustaining Dunbar group to find out more about its work. (01/09/2010 11:23:09)

Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true according to a study on Wednesday.

A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.

Political action seems again improbable, but it remains more urgent than ever Climate change now reveals itself on a weekly basis. Scientists this month identified a colony of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries both yellow fever and the dengue virus, in the Netherlands. This African insect had not been seen in Europe for more than 50 years. A few days later US researchers reported that on ...

Exclusive 'Sceptical environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world • Climate change voice who changed his tune • Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to stand aside The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge ...

Review of IPCC calls for tighter term limits on top bosses and recommends changes to ensure science panel's credibility • Lomborg: $100bn needed for climate fight • Pachauri innocent of financial misdealings Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the UN's science panel on climate change, is coming under pressure to step aside as chair of the organisation after an independent review of the panel's work ...

With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaigners Few statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became famous as the author of the controversial (some would say contrarian) Skeptical Environmentalist ...

ACT's climate change and greenhouse gas reduction bill aims to cut carbon emissions by 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) said today it will enact tough carbon cutting laws, a step that comes after a national election that punished the ruling Labor party over lack of action on climate change. The ACT, which includes the capital Canberra also ...